My executive summary has photos, but the file size is too big. How can I include photos with my application?
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I tried to upload my executive summary, but it was rejected because the file is too big. It's too big because it contains photos of my product or technology. How can I include these photos with my application?
Most digital cameras take very high resolution pictures, but as a result, the image files are huge: often 1 Mb or more per image. Drop a few of these into your executive summary, and you can easily have a file that tops 5 Mb or more.
The answer is to shrink your photos down in size, and save them in a compressed file format such as .JPG or .GIF. You can do this in any image or photo manipulation program. There are even freeware utilities that will do the job for you.
How far to shrink them? Resize your photos to be 640x480 pixels in size or smaller. On a computer screen, 640x480 works well as a full page view. For partial page or thumbnail views, you can go even smaller.
Won't that hurt my resolution? On the printed page, maybe; but on a computer monitor, you'll hardly notice the difference. Most monitors can't display images at resolutions much higher than 1024x768 pixels, and certainly can't handle the extremely high resolutions provided by today's digital cameras.
Shrink your pictures down before putting them into your executive summary, and you should be able to easily include several pictures and stay within the file size limit.
